favor of reducing the deficit now. the short term, i am not in fave of reducing the deficit. but i do think there have to be some longer-term plans that give the financial markets some degree of confidence that we're not just going to blow apart. i think this is something on the longer term which is what bowles/simpson was all also, something which i favored totally. so i think that was a combination of including longer-term control over some of our big expenditures, particularly in health care. and that is something we have to do. i think the president could get some things if, in fact, he addressed some of these longer-term issue, but he walked away from that and there's no confidence that he really cares about it. >> let's talk about common economics. i would have thought you would have been in favor of immigration reform, gun control. you're saying these things should be weighed down. >> i'm incredibly in favor of all these initiative, including, of course, energy, which he should have done something about his firs